Tommy Lee Jones, Anne Heche, Gaby Hoffmann

A volcano erupts in downtown L.A., threatening to destroy the city.

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PG-13, 104 min.

Directed by: Mick Jackson

Release Date: April 25, 1997

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DVD Release Date: December 18, 2001

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  • September 22, 2009
    I love it in the underground scene when a guy is standing in the lava and he throws a person to safety just before he melts. Brilliant. This film review is in memory of him! God bless you melting man!
  • September 6, 2009
    Pretty freaky. It made me not wanna go to LA for awhile.
  • February 11, 2009
    Saw this in a geography class if I remember correctly, makes learning about volcanos all te more exciting, not sure if I'd watch it for any other reason to be honest lol...
  • July 31, 2008
    the effects are super lame now.....
  • March 4, 2008
    Childhood memories sometimes become nightmares when you grow up: yes, I saw this.
  • November 12, 2009
    HOT FLAMING VOLCANIC CRAP
  • November 12, 2009
    Volcano is just what we've come to expect from blockbusters: the story's iffy, the characters are ever so slightly two-dimensional and the supporting cast do the bare minimum.
    Tommy Lee Jones is ok, but it is a bit laughable how clichéd his character is.
    Anne Heche does well w...( read more)ith her part, making her character the most believable of the lot. The real star in this, though, is what it was always meant to be: the effects, and they are good.
    This is an entertaining film, if just a tad "so what?"
  • October 25, 2009
    I didnt even want to watch it all
  • October 16, 2009
    Much better than Dante's Peak which was released around the same time,this one focuses on a volcano that erupts in Los Angeles.Jones is in fine form in this disaster type thriller.
  • August 25, 2009
    it seems to be sooo real.
    you know what happened?
    when i was seeing this movie on t.v, my grandma came and she said
    " oh my God...
    where it happened?"

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  • Rosepetal75
    March 7, 2009
    An Emergency Chief Mike Roark (Tommy Lee Jone) & Geologists Amy Barnes (Anne Heche) & Rachel (Laurie Lathem) save the city from Subterranean tremor beneath the streets of LA releases a lava flow threatened to turn city into a blazing inferno toward the Cedars Sinai Hospital into the Pacific Ocean.
  • Aritosgold
    November 7, 2007
    Very Good;;

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